Trump's inauguration through the eyes of Reuters photographers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump was covered by 17 photographers for Reuters successful Washington. From a bird's oculus presumption of the U.S. superior to the president's array mounting for luncheon to trash near strewn extracurricular information checkpoints, Reuters was determination to seizure the pomp and ceremony, the anticipation and celebrations of supporters, and the fears and protests of opponents.

The original, cautiously laid plans of quality organizations were thrown into disarray connected Friday, erstwhile a forecast of snowfall and freezing temperatures led to last-minute changes. The swearing-in ceremonial itself was moved from a signifier extracurricular the Capitol, wherever it would person taken spot successful beforehand of ample crowds, to the small, packed Capitol rotunda indoors.

Some Trump supporters inactive gravitated to the present mostly bare and frosty National Mall lawn, watching the lawsuit connected their phones. Others huddled successful edifice bars, portion immoderate scored coveted tickets to the 20,000-seater Capital One (NYSE:) Arena. A parade initially intended to spell down Pennsylvania Avenue took spot successful the arena instead, portion Trump and immoderate of his main allies besides gave speeches determination to an affectional crowd.

Photographers were determination to screen it each for Reuters - and elsewhere too, including the steps of the White House, the apical of the Washington Monument, and astatine anti-Trump protests.

Below is simply a enactment of immoderate Reuters pictures taken during the events of the time and successful the lead-up to it, on with comments from the photographers who took them.

Fabrizio Bensch

"Back successful September 2024 I started readying the implementation of robotic and distant cameras for the U.S. president's inauguration. When I arrived present astatine the opening of January we started to hole everything for the inauguration extracurricular connected the Capitol Hill platform. And past the unexpected quality came that owed to the acold upwind everything would instrumentality spot successful the rotunda.

"Now determination were lone 3 days to replan everything. We were assigned to a presumption wherever we could equine 2 distant cameras connected a lighting truss precisely other the president's level presumption astatine the inauguration. These cameras were connected to the web and were capable to nonstop each the photos from the rotunda unrecorded to the editors successful the Washington Reuters bureau."

Brendan McDermid

"This was my 4th inauguration implicit 25 years. Each 1 has been unique, and this 1 is nary exception. I drew the fortunate occupation of being atop the Washington Monument. Unfortunately erstwhile they announced that everything was moving wrong my presumption became little relevant. That didn't halt maine from taking a infinitesimal to admit wherever I was this morning, arsenic the entity turned orangish conscionable earlier the dawn, looking down upon the National Mall and the Capitol Building."

Daniel Cole

"The temper connected the Mall was eerie arsenic it was mostly empty, but the assemblage of supporters who did travel retired were wholly elated and galore expressed a wide feeling of alleviation that their antheral was backmost successful power. This 1 mates had brought camping chairs and sat successful the bare Mall, watching the ceremonial connected their telephone together."

Jeenah Moon

"As wintertime grips Washington, the aerial was frigid, 1 of the coldest days of the season. I made definite to furniture up successful lukewarm covering - heavy thermals, a cozy wool sweater, manus warmers and a dense overgarment - to shield myself from the biting chill. Additionally, I cautiously prepared my camera gear, ensuring the batteries were afloat charged, arsenic the acold tin drain them faster than usual. I was determined to seizure each moment, nary substance however agelong the time that stretched up of me."

Kevin Lamarque

"As a Reuters unit lensman for implicit 37 years, with the past 25 successful Washington, I person covered campaigns, elections and inaugurations aplenty. This inauguration, however, was good extracurricular the box. The different six inaugurations I covered were each outdoors, arsenic is the tradition. No uncertainty hundreds of members of the media and thousands of Trump supporters were hugely disappointed. But disappointment is easier to flooded than frostbite oregon hypothermia."

Marko Djurica

"This is my archetypal clip moving successful the U.S. and, of course, that means it's my archetypal inauguration. I could possibly comparison it to the coronation of King Charles that I did successful London, but this is bigger. Security wise, it is unbelievably unafraid and there's constabulary everywhere, streets are closed and the biggest situation was to determination from 1 anti-Trump protestation to the inauguration wrong the secured perimeter."

Shannon Stapleton

"For the past 3 oregon 4 elections connected inauguration days I person been assigned to screen the Mall area, wherever the radical assemble. This twelvemonth it was different, due to the fact that it was held wrong the Capital One Arena, truthful you had to conscionable benignant of determination astir and set - which made the occupation easier, due to the fact that it was much similar thoroughfare photography."

Brian Snyder

"I've covered inaugurations since 2004 and the president-elect dancing with the Village People is similar thing I've seen before. Throughout the campaign, Trump would extremity astir of his rallies dancing to a signaling of 'YMCA.' This was the archetypal clip helium was joined by the set itself. Of people the assemblage of supporters gathered present loved each minute."

Mike Segar

"These are important moments successful past ... and we are fortunate to witnesser these moments and bring them to a planetary audience."

Amanda Perobelli

"I person lone been to 1 statesmanlike inauguration - successful Brazil - and it is absorbing to spot the quality successful cultures. There are immoderate similarities arsenic good - the emotions, radical waiting, cheering and this consciousness of being portion of history. The situation for maine is the cold, for sure, arsenic we don't person acold similar this successful Brazil."

Evelyn Hockstein

"I thought Melania Trump's chapeau was an absorbing look. I could ne'er spot her eyes truthful it doesn't astonishment maine it got a batch of buzz. It was truthful ocular and successful the fewer moments that I had a wide changeable of Melania I spent astir apt each of them photographing her and the chapeau against this cleanable backdrop with President Trump sitting adjacent to her during the luncheon."

Nathan Howard

"My main relation contiguous was to seizure the greeting accomplishment of Trump for beverage with (outgoing President Joe) Biden, and past Trump's accomplishment backmost to the White House pursuing his swearing-in. The temper this greeting among Biden staffers felt somewhat similar the past time of schoolhouse earlier graduation - galore staffers saying goodbye to each different and packing up, others craning their necks to drawback a glimpse of Trump's arrival.

"It's a uncommon and fascinating happening to witnesser 2 icons of American governmental beingness successful 1 room. Each of them is usually the astir important idiosyncratic successful immoderate country they're in. Now they are sharing the signifier arsenic powerfulness transitions."

Elizabeth Frantz

"The biggest situation for maine was not knowing successful beforehand whether I would beryllium outdoors successful a fixed presumption for six hours consecutive oregon conscionable 1 to 2 hours astatine a time. The past happening I wanted was to beryllium wrong sweating successful each my lukewarm layers lone to past spell backmost outside. But I managed! I survived the chill, and past rapidly changed into semi-formal deterioration I stored successful the photograph bureau connected Capitol Hill earlier heading to the Liberty Ball (NYSE:)."

Jim Urquhart

"I've specialized successful covering equipped extremist groups for implicit a decennary successful America. This includes respective years of covering the Proud Boys successful their homes and successful their communities. This was a smaller gathering than astir of the ones I've covered. But it shows that the Proud Boys are inactive present - oregon rather, ne'er went away."

Leah Millis

"This clip I was covering a tiny radical of protesters. They started astatine a parkland and marched adjacent downtown but stayed astir a mile away. The vigor is antithetic due to the fact that (it is) radical who are not blessed astir the incoming administration. There's anger, chanting, but besides euphony truthful determination are radical dancing and radical providing enactment to each different successful the signifier of water, snacks and manus warmers."

Kevin Mohatt

"It being Martin Luther King Day, I went to the MLK Memorial wherever I saw respective radical who were successful municipality for the inauguration. Since they weren't capable to presumption it, they went to the memorial instead. Having the lawsuit moved indoors made it challenging to program around. It became a substance of figuring retired wherever radical mightiness beryllium and wherever is the champion spot to seizure the images that archer the communicative of the time beyond what was happening nether the dome."

Carlos Barria

"For Inauguration Day I person a precise dynamic and fast-paced assignment. We travel the caller president everyplace helium goes until helium makes his past determination for the day, and past we caput backmost home. The challenges are many: from dealing with the acold upwind successful achromatic tie, to the agelong hours, with precise fewer breaks to eat. (But) I ever accidental this occupation is simply a beforehand spot to history, and I volition person the privilege of witnessing it."